Dera Nevin, a former e-Discovery counsel at Proskauer Rose in New York City, is currently on the European leg of a legal technology world tour that takes her to 18 cities in five weeks. She's documenting her encounters with legal tech profiles across the globe for a film that will screen at the Global Legal Hackathon finals gala later in April. There's also a book in the works, she tells me over breakfast in Stockholm.

The official Slack group for the Global Legal Hackathon saw a stream of photos and updates on progress from New York, Singapore, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Montréal, Florianópolis, Berlin, Alexandria, Tel Aviv, Ukraine, London, Johannesburg and other corners of the world Saturday, as did the #GlobalLegalHack and #GLH2018 Twitter hashtags.

The Global Legal Hackathon will take place on 23-25 February 2018. Richard and Fredrik talk to organisers Aileen Schultz and David A. Fisher about their expectations.
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The Swedish event will be hosted by Synch, and the participants will be judged by among others Fredrik Svärd of Legaltech.se.

Organisers Aileen Schultz and David A. Fisher expect around 10 000 participants from six continents, and 20 or more actual legal tech companies being launched after the event. There is no entry fee, and you do not need to have a team or an idea to participate. Local winners will go on to compete in New York in April.

David Fisher is the founder and CEO of Integra Ledger, a permissioned blockchain for the legal industry, Aileen Schultz is the director of network intelligence. Together they are co-hosting the Global Legal Hackathon.